Example sentences of "only [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only eight months to go before the closure of Staveley sheds , a local class 04 trundles down from Arkwright on a rake of coal empties from Kirkby Bentinck No. 63701 will deposit the train at Staveley , some two miles down the track , and beyond Duckmanton North Junction ( below ) seen in the distance . |
| 2 | Sadly she had the baby on the streets whilst only eight months pregnant . |
| 3 | I can never forget how he used to come over in the evening from Bembridge School to sit with me after my son died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-seven , only eight months after his marriage . |
| 4 | In Britain elections to the House of Commons , from which the government is formed , must be held at least every five years ( until Parliament says otherwise ) but may be held at any time during the five years , for example there were only eight months between elections in 1974 and the average length of a parliament is around four years . |
| 5 | The Apple boutique closed down after only eight months , most of the clothing having simply vanished . |
| 6 | Cancer was diagnosed only eight months earlier , and Madeleine held a strong conviction she could find a way of helping in her own healing . |
| 7 | Already , after only eight months of the new arrangement , I believe the management of BP 's affairs is benefiting from it . |
| 8 | Although surgery is cited as the main hope for cure , only 7% of patients treated by radical surgery survive five years and the median survival of these patients is only eight months . |
| 9 | and I 'll say to him , right , okay , we 'll give you the five per cent r reduction for only eight months of the year . |
| 10 | The National Conference of the Communist Party , which met in Sheffield in October 1935 , passed a resolution which departed considerably from the slogan " For a Communist Group in Parliament " adopted at the Thirteenth Congress only eight months previously . |
| 11 | The assignment of 24 Field Ambulance , part of 24 Airmobile Brigade 's key Rapid Reaction Force , is currently for only 12 months . |
| 12 | Australia 's defeats at Swansea and Llanelli , and only four tries in five matches in Wales , have given new hope to home players and fans only 12 months on from the 38–3 record home defeat at the hands of the Wallabies . |
| 13 | The scale can be illustrated by the fact that 30 years ago our young people were maturing at a later stage than now , but in many cases were leaving school at an earlier age and taking up employment — the gap between adolescence and employment was perhaps only 12 months . |
| 14 | However the consent is for only 12 months . |
| 15 | Levitt was rejected for the Queens Award only 12 months before he secured the top honour . |
| 16 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 17 | While it took ten years for them to move against her , after only 12 months they have him in their sights . |
| 18 | It is only 12 months old and I now wish to purchase a modulator to convert it to a colour monitor for use with a domestic TV set . |
| 19 | Only 7 months old |
| 20 | Although mean follow up was only 49.9 months , there was no evidence to suggest that removal of stones resulted in any improvement in prognosis . |
| 21 | His judgment was based largely on the fortunes of the Fox-North coalition of 1783 , which Lord Blake has called ‘ the first coalition of any significance in British political history ’ and which died ‘ unhonoured and unwept ’ after only 10 months . |
| 22 | The age difference between the two groups , however , was not evenly distributed : males in the hidden sector were on average only 10 months younger than males in the known sector , while females were 2 years 8 months younger . |
| 23 | In 1992 , Sara 's son , Sonnie ( Palamine Cherish the Dream ) was judged top Special Puppy at only 10 months , and this year he was again among the award winners , being voted best Special Yearling . |
| 24 | Major political events in 1990 included the surprise resignation of Foreign Minister Sayed al-Attiya in May after only 10 months in the post . |
| 25 | It was given only six months in the cinema and then screened in the third week of Channel Four transmission in 1982 . |
| 26 | He 'd been buying his clothes at Acme Attractions up the road — a stall which generally did exactly the same as Malcolm only six months later , and were quite open about it . |
| 27 | I mean , this lot did come in , only six months ago , announcing that everyone would have to stand on their own feet and not be rescued , and face up to competition , and all that . |
| 28 | However , Joan 's newest dog , Chrissy , has such unique qualities that already , only six months old , she 's working the community homes and mental wards . |
| 29 | Variable premium , the EC mechanism which encouraged expansion , some of it too indiscriminate on the breeding front , has only six months to live . |
| 30 | John Martyn considered this publication of enough importance to warrant his presenting another account to the Royal Society , only six months after his dissertation on the Dictionary . |